Congrat Samuel! Hope that you'll do great things.
I'm planning to have such event here in Congo by the end of this year.
Cheers,
Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev
Free Culture Enthousiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
On 12 February 2018 at 12:05, Abel MBULA <bam6192(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrat Samuel! Hope that you'll do great things.
>
> I'm planning to have such event here in Congo by the end of this year.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abel Lifaefi Mbula
> Free Software Dev
> Free Culture Enthousiast
>
> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
> OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
>
>
>
> On 12 February 2018 at 11:22, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dear all,I am excited to inform you that the African Wikimedia
>> Developers Project (AWMD)
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>[1]
>> will have its second training session in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. This event
>> was made possible thanks to a close collaboration between Wikimedia
>> Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire (WCUG-CI) and Open Foundation West
>> Africa, along with other local partners.From February 16 to 17, around 25
>> developers will learn how to improve or develop on the Mediawiki software
>> as well as the overall technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects.
>> Following the training session in Accra last year and its encouraging
>> outcomes
>> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/>[2],
>> the step of Abidjan intends to build on the lessons learned so far and
>> continue to expand the volunteer community of the Africa Wikimedia
>> Developers Project (AWMD). As a reminder, AWMD is a project that focuses on
>> recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the Wikimedia
>> Movement. Its main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers
>> who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement
>> at large. Stay tuned for more updates soon!Cheers,*
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project
>> [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-
>> developer-community/
>>
>> *_______________________________________________________*
>>
>>
>> *Samuel Guebo*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Vice-chair of Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
>> <http://wikimedia.ci> (WCUG-CI)GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire*
>>
>> *(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37**Join me on : Facebook
>> <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter
>> <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> / Blog <http://samuelguebo.co>*
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> African-wikimedia-developers mailing list
>> African-wikimedia-developers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers
>>
>>
>
Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce
myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and
work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team. While
I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building
activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community
Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the
Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on
the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks.
I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in
discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several
related goals in each country I'd visit, including:
* a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors. This
would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also integrate
thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy
project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)
* Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed helpful)
* Public speaking (if deemed helpful)
* capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such as
(I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful):
** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to
contribute to the Wikimedia Commons)
** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV)
** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia
** Conflict management for Wikipedians
** Group facilitation skills
** Introduction to Wikidata
** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
** Modern tools demonstration
** How to build a partnership
** etc.
Some logistical details:
*If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before
Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July.
* If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three
weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and to
accommodate your needs and availability.
* I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
together
* No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and
cooperation.
Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your
community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further,
over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or
you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this
year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested
in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with this
budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Asaf
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM
Hi Asaf,
We welcome you to Dar es Salaam,Tanzania.
It'll be great to have you here so we can discuss many things about
capacity building with our community.
Looking forward to meet you here. You'll let us know the next step.
Best regards
Antoni Mtavangu
Co-Founder: https: //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Tanzania_User_Group
+255 656 913 856
Hello Asaf,
Our community will be happy to receive you at Yaounde, Douala or Buea.
Let us know about next step.
Regards,
____________________________________
Georges Fodouop
Informaticien
Co-founder : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Cameroon_User_Group
User : Geugeor
Wikipédien en résidence : www.wikiloveswomen.org
Formateur wikimedia
Douala - Cameroun
+237 677 71 20 68 / +237 695 33 18 84
--------------------------------------------
En date de : Mar 27.2.18, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
Objet: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit?
À: "Mailing list for African Wikimedians" <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mardi 27 février 2018, 20h15
Some of you know
me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce
myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia
Foundation, and work in the Community Resources (formerly
called Grantmaking) team. While I handled grants in the
past, I am now working on capacity-building activities with
emerging communities, in a program called Community Capacity
Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the
Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have
run across on the Wikimedia-l in the past few
weeks.
I write today to ask whether your community would
be interested in discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan
Africa by me, with several related goals in each country
I'd visit, including:* a strategy/planning
workshop with the group of active contributors. This would
build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also
integrate thinking about the broad goals identified in the
movement strategy project's phase 1 (presented at
Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)* Meetings
with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed
helpful)* Public speaking (if deemed
helpful)* capacity-building workshops for your
community members, on topics such as (I'll need your
help in determining which of these would be
useful):** Free licenses, non-free licenses,
copyright, and OTRS (or: How to contribute to the Wikimedia
Commons)** Composing encyclopedic prose from a
neutral point of view (NPOV)** Negotiating
notability and reliability requirements on
Wikipedia** Conflict management for
Wikipedians** Group facilitation
skills** Introduction to Wikidata**
Querying Wikidata with SPARQL** Modern tools
demonstration** How to build a
partnership** etc.
Some logistical details:
*If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia
Conference and before Wikimania, i.e. between late April and
early July.* If I come, I would probably stay in
Africa for between two and three weeks total, to have enough
time for the above in several countries, and to accommodate
your needs and availability.* I will have a
budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
together* No expenses are expected from your
group's budget. Only your time and
cooperation.
Please take some time to discuss this idea and
let me know if your community is sufficiently interested
that we should discuss it further, over email or a video
call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or you
really can't accommodate any additional activities
before July this year, *please* don't feel obligated to
respond. I am genuinely interested in helping, and there are
other communities I could be supporting with this budget and
time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise!
:)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Asaf
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM _______________________________________________
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African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi Asaf,
The Uganda team (*Planning Wikimedia User Group*) will be glad to welcome
this initiative, and activities in Kampala - Uganda. We got a bit of great
ideas from Felix Nartey's visit last year in July (2017), which we are
implementing.
Will be great to have you as well for more of the above.
*Planning (Wikimedia User Group Uganda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_User_Group_Uganda>)*
*Building maps for the community.*
*Skype: douglo.m | Twitter: @mapuganda
<http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda> @douglaseru
<https://twitter.com/douglaseru> | Mob: +256 772 422524 <0772%20422524>*
*Hive Colab, 4th Floor Kanjokya House, Plot 90, Kanjokya Street,
Kampala - Uganda*
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:37 AM, <african-wikimedians-request@
lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Samuel Guebo)
> 2. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Kangah Donatien KOFFI)
> 3. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Georges Fodouop)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:32:40 +0000
> From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit?
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>
> Hello Asaf,
>
> The Wikimedian community in Côte d'Ivoire would be honored to have you
> here. We look forward to discussing details of your coming.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce
> > myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and
> > work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team.
> While
> > I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building
> > activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community
> > Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the
> > Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on
> > the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks.
> >
> > I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in
> > discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several
> > related goals in each country I'd visit, including:
> > * a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors.
> This
> > would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also
> integrate
> > thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy
> > project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)
> > * Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed
> helpful)
> > * Public speaking (if deemed helpful)
> > * capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such
> > as (I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful):
> > ** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to
> > contribute to the Wikimedia Commons)
> > ** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV)
> > ** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia
> > ** Conflict management for Wikipedians
> > ** Group facilitation skills
> > ** Introduction to Wikidata
> > ** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
> > ** Modern tools demonstration
> > ** How to build a partnership
> > ** etc.
> >
> > Some logistical details:
> >
> > *If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before
> > Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July.
> > * If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three
> > weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and
> to
> > accommodate your needs and availability.
> > * I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
> > together
> > * No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and
> > cooperation.
> >
> > Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your
> > community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further,
> > over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful,
> or
> > you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this
> > year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested
> > in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with
> this
> > budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :)
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Asaf
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > African-Wikimedians mailing list
> > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> *_______________________________________________________*
>
>
> *Samuel Guebo*
>
>
>
> *GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'IvoireVice-chair of Wikimedia Community
> User Group Côte d'Ivoire <http://wikimedia.ci> (WCUG-CI)*
>
> *(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37**Join me on : Facebook
> <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter
> <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> / Blog <http://samuelguebo.co>*
>
Dear Asaf,
We will be happy to receive you in Zambia.
Kind regards,
Trudy
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:37 PM, <
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> 1. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Samuel Guebo)
> 2. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Kangah Donatien KOFFI)
> 3. Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Georges Fodouop)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:32:40 +0000
> From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit?
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>
> Hello Asaf,
>
> The Wikimedian community in Côte d'Ivoire would be honored to have you
> here. We look forward to discussing details of your coming.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce
> > myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and
> > work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team.
> While
> > I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building
> > activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community
> > Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the
> > Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on
> > the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks.
> >
> > I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in
> > discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several
> > related goals in each country I'd visit, including:
> > * a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors.
> This
> > would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also
> integrate
> > thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy
> > project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)
> > * Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed
> helpful)
> > * Public speaking (if deemed helpful)
> > * capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such
> > as (I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful):
> > ** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to
> > contribute to the Wikimedia Commons)
> > ** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV)
> > ** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia
> > ** Conflict management for Wikipedians
> > ** Group facilitation skills
> > ** Introduction to Wikidata
> > ** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
> > ** Modern tools demonstration
> > ** How to build a partnership
> > ** etc.
> >
> > Some logistical details:
> >
> > *If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before
> > Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July.
> > * If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three
> > weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and
> to
> > accommodate your needs and availability.
> > * I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
> > together
> > * No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and
> > cooperation.
> >
> > Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your
> > community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further,
> > over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful,
> or
> > you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this
> > year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested
> > in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with
> this
> > budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :)
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Asaf
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > African-Wikimedians mailing list
> > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> *_______________________________________________________*
>
>
> *Samuel Guebo*
>
>
>
> *GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'IvoireVice-chair of Wikimedia Community
> User Group Côte d'Ivoire <http://wikimedia.ci> (WCUG-CI)*
>
> *(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37**Join me on : Facebook
> <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter
> <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> / Blog <http://samuelguebo.co>*
>
We will be happy to meet with you.
--
Regards,
Sandister Tei
New Media+Journalism | Wikipedia | Purple People
linkedin.com/in/sandister-tei
Via Samsung Mobile
On 27 Feb 2018 7:15 pm, "Asaf Bartov" <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce
myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and
work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team. While
I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building
activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community
Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the
Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on
the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks.
I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in
discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several
related goals in each country I'd visit, including:
* a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors. This
would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also integrate
thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy
project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)
* Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed helpful)
* Public speaking (if deemed helpful)
* capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such as
(I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful):
** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to
contribute to the Wikimedia Commons)
** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV)
** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia
** Conflict management for Wikipedians
** Group facilitation skills
** Introduction to Wikidata
** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
** Modern tools demonstration
** How to build a partnership
** etc.
Some logistical details:
*If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before
Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July.
* If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three
weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and to
accommodate your needs and availability.
* I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
together
* No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and
cooperation.
Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your
community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further,
over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or
you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this
year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested
in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with this
budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Asaf
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM
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FYI,
Isaac
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Samantha Lien" <slien(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 16, 2018 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Sending in a re-formatted version:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> As we consider the new strategic direction we identified from Wikimedia
> 2030[1], the Foundation is evolving how we work with partners to address
> barriers to participating in free knowledge around the world.
>
> After careful evaluation, we’ve decided to discontinue the Wikipedia Zero
> program[2] as one of the partnership approaches we offer. Over the course
> of this year, we won’t be taking on any new Wikipedia Zero partnerships,
> and current partnerships will expire.
>
> The Wikipedia Zero program was first created to address one barrier to
> participating in free knowledge globally: high mobile data costs. Through
> the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees
> for their customers to freely access Wikipedia on mobile devices. In the
> program’s six year tenure, we have partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72
> countries to provide access to Wikipedia to more than 800 million people
> free of mobile data charges. As stewards of Wikipedia Zero, I want to
> congratulate and thank the Global Reach team for the success of this
> program during its tenure, and for their leadership in continuing to
> support new and meaningful partnerships aligned with our movement’s values
> and vision.
>
> In the past couple of years, we identified a few developments that have
> impacted Wikipedia Zero’s continued relevance. Beginning in 2016, we’ve
> seen a significant drop off in adoption and interest in Wikipedia Zero, and
> as a result, our reach today stands at a quarter of where it was at its
> peak. During this time, we also conducted research[3] to better understand
> the full scope of barriers to using Wikipedia around the world. For
> example, awareness is one of the key issues we identified - even when
> people have smartphones and use Facebook, Google, or WhatsApp, many of
> those same people have never heard of Wikipedia. In addition, limited
> local language content is another barrier we identified that inhibits the
> discovery and use of our projects.
>
> We’ve had initial success with projects and partnerships[4] designed to
> build awareness in parts of the world where Wikipedia is not widely known
> or used. These successes have given us several ideas for where we may take
> our partnership work next, and over the coming year, we will explore other
> ways we can leverage the findings from our research and the Wikipedia Zero
> program to direct future work with partners.
>
> We remain committed to creating impactful partnerships that align with our
> own values and direction for the Wikimedia movement’s future. We look
> forward to sharing more information and updates on our work with partners
> in the coming year.
>
> Thank you,
> Lisa
>
> We’ve also published a blog post about this announcement here:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction
> [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights and
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
> [4] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org>
> > Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:08 PM
> > Subject: Update on Wikimedia partnerships
> > To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
> >
> > *Hi everyone,As we consider the new strategic direction we identified
> from
> > Wikimedia 2030[1], the Foundation is evolving how we work with partners
> to
> > address barriers to participating in free knowledge around the world.
> After
> > careful evaluation, we’ve decided to discontinue the Wikipedia Zero
> > program[2] as one of the partnership approaches we offer. Over the course
> > of this year, we won’t be taking on any new Wikipedia Zero partnerships,
> > and current partnerships will expire. The Wikipedia Zero program was
> first
> > created to address one barrier to participating in free knowledge
> globally:
> > high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile
> > operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers to freely access
> > Wikipedia on mobile devices. In the program’s six year tenure, we have
> > partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries to provide access to
> > Wikipedia to more than 800 million people free of mobile data charges. As
> > stewards of Wikipedia Zero, I want to congratulate and thank the Global
> > Reach team for the success of this program during its tenure, and for
> their
> > leadership in continuing to support new and meaningful partnerships
> aligned
> > with our movement’s values and vision. In the past couple of years, we
> > identified a few developments that have impacted Wikipedia Zero’s
> continued
> > relevance. Beginning in 2016, we’ve seen a significant drop off in
> adoption
> > and interest in Wikipedia Zero, and as a result, our reach today stands
> at
> > a quarter of where it was at its peak. During this time, we also
> conducted
> > research[3] to better understand the full scope of barriers to using
> > Wikipedia around the world. For example, awareness is one of the key
> issues
> > we identified - even when people have smartphones and use Facebook,
> Google,
> > or WhatsApp, many of those same people have never heard of Wikipedia. In
> > addition, limited local language content is another barrier we identified
> > that inhibits the discovery and use of our projects. We’ve had initial
> > success with projects and partnerships[4] designed to build awareness in
> > parts of the world where Wikipedia is not widely known or used. These
> > successes have given us several ideas for where we may take our
> partnership
> > work next, and over the coming year, we will explore other ways we can
> > leverage the findings from our research and the Wikipedia Zero program to
> > direct future work with partners. We remain committed to creating
> impactful
> > partnerships that align with our own values and direction for the
> Wikimedia
> > movement’s future. We look forward to sharing more information and
> updates
> > on our work with partners in the coming year. Thank you, LisaWe’ve also
> > published a blog post about this announcement here:
> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/
> > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/>[1]
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Direction
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > movement/2017/Direction>[2]
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
> > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero>[3]
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights> and
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>[4]
> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/
> > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/>*
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*Dear all,I am excited to inform you that the African Wikimedia Developers
Project (AWMD)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>[1]
will have its second training session in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. This event
was made possible thanks to a close collaboration between Wikimedia
Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire (WCUG-CI) and Open Foundation West
Africa, along with other local partners.From February 16 to 17, around 25
developers will learn how to improve or develop on the Mediawiki software
as well as the overall technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects.
Following the training session in Accra last year and its encouraging
outcomes
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/>[2],
the step of Abidjan intends to build on the lessons learned so far and
continue to expand the volunteer community of the Africa Wikimedia
Developers Project (AWMD). As a reminder, AWMD is a project that focuses on
recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the Wikimedia
Movement. Its main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers
who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement
at large. Stay tuned for more updates soon!Cheers,*
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project
[2]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/
*_______________________________________________________*
*Samuel Guebo*
*Vice-chair of Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
<http://wikimedia.ci> (WCUG-CI)GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire*
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